On 9 Jul 2003, Francois Pinard wrote:
[Markus Gaugusch]
Although it IS possible to add another user with UID 0, it is not recommended to do so for several reasons (and currently I'm too stupid to find name one ... shame on me ;)
I once used to have a `root' and a `root2', both having uid 0 in `/etc/passwd', and I used this for quite a while, and do not remember any adverse effect. Oh, maybe that with `ls', `root2' created files will appear as owned by `root', but this never bothered me.
So if someone was recommending me not to do so, I would be tempted to ask for some explicit, convincing justification.
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